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CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK

CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,018 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($168,850). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$630k
Funders on record
42
Grants received
$926k
Net assets
$826k
24/42 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Children's Medical Fund of New York does

Mission

The organization raises funds to support the programs of the cohen children's medical center of new york.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Child life program - these program services consist of transfers of funds from the organization to benefit programs at the cohen children's medical center of ny (ccmc) including: support for the pediatric er building, provide entertainment, gifts, therapeutic play, including therapeutic art work for the pediatric outpatient chemotherapy unit to provide distraction for the patients as they undergo extensive and lengthy treatments. Provide patients and families access to specialists trained in multi-disciplinary health care teams to learn to cope with the stress of hospital stays. Provides the sole financial support of the children's medical fund center for pediatric diagnostic studies.

    $665,190 spentof which $634,875 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $665,190.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($725k) Expenses 100 ($389k) Net assets -125 ($-1145391)2018 Revenue 76 ($550k) Expenses 101 ($391k) Net assets -108 ($-989227)2019 Revenue 83 ($600k) Expenses 98 ($382k) Net assets -84 ($-770661)2020 Revenue 61 ($442k) Expenses 63 ($247k) Net assets -63 ($-574701)2021 Revenue 120 ($873k) Expenses 134 ($522k) Net assets -24 ($-224106)2022 Revenue 135 ($982k) Expenses 126 ($489k) Net assets 100 ($918k)2023 Revenue 86 ($625k) Expenses 250 ($973k) Net assets 62 ($570k)2024 Revenue 87 ($630k) Expenses 98 ($383k) Net assets 90 ($826k)
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Revenue (87)Expenses (98)Net assets (90)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $923k (−30%).

$1.3M
$923k
$844k
$951k
$943k
$980k
$596k
$894k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$336k
’17
$158k
’18
$219k
’19
$196k
’20
$351k
’21
$493k
’22
−$349k
’23
$247k
’24
19
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

David Blumenfeld

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed3132363637343739
Joined·+2+5+0+2+3+3+2
No longer listed·1101600
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $40k → $107k.

9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK.

18%
largest funder
41%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 48% · 2019 58% · 2020 67% · 2021 32% · 2022 34% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

33% of CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

87% of CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
NJ
CT
CA
NC
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $382k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

9% of spending goes to programs.

Program 9%Management 30%Fundraising 60%

Governance

36
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Children's Medical Fund Child Life Endowment Corp · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK?
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,018 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($168,850). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $926,018 in grants to CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK?
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $168,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing